Gaia has collected data on billions of stars for more than ten years and will take years to analyze. It will be switched off ...

Gaia BH3, as it's now called, was first noticed by a team of ESA scientists poring over data from the mission to look for anything unusual. An old giant star from the nearby Aquila constellation ...

ESA's star-surveying Gaia mission has again proven to be a formidable asteroid explorer, spotting potential moons around more ...

Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...

Using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, scientists have found a huge exoplanet and a brown dwarf. This is the first time a planet has been uniquely discovered by Gaia’s ...

HOUSTON (KIAH) – An Amber Alert was issued for a little girl missing for nearly a week. Authorities are asking for the public ...

Astronomers rely on clear observations to study celestial objects, but cosmic dust alters what we see, making stars appear ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...

ESA's Gaia telescope identified the two threads of stars as 'Shakti' and 'Shiva'. The two threads of stars began to weave together billions of years ago, forming the Milky Way we know today.